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[FTousB  OF  Reprbsbwtatives,  No.  34:4.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Jan.  20th,  1 805.— Read 
first  and  second  times,  placed  on  the  Calendar,  and  ordered  to  be 
printed. 

[By  Mr.  Akin. 


A.    BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  provide  for  auditing  and  paying  for  horses 

and  equipments  taken  from  dismounted  cavalrymen  for  the 

use  of  the  Government. 

1  Whereas,  Cavalrymen  of  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States 

2  have  been  dismounted  and  their  horses  appropriated  to  the  use 

3  of  the  Confederate  States  government,  and   no  provision  has 

4  been  made  for  the  payment  thereof, 

1  Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States 

2  of  .America,  That  in  every  case  where  a  cavalryman   has  been 

3  dismounted   and   his  horse  or  equipments,  or  either,  has  been 

4  taken  for  the  use  of  the  Confederate  States,  the  owner  of  said 

5  horse  and  equipments  shall  be  paid,  out  of  any  money  appropri- 

6  ated  therefor,  the  value  of  said  horse  and  equipmer.ts  at   the 

7  time  they  were  so  taken,  upon  proof  of  their  value  and  owner- 

8  ship,  when  the  claim  therefor  has  been  audited  and  allowed  by 
$  the  proper  officer  for  that  purpose,  under  such  rules  and  rogula- 

10    tioES  as  the  Quartermaster  General  Bhall  prescribe. 


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